Addonics Technologies - AD4SAHM2

• Dual Hyper HDD - M2 Hybrid Controller
• Driver CD
• Low Profile PCI Bracket
• User Guide

This Dual Hyper HDD - M2 SSD Hybrid controller is a 2-port SATA III PCI-e host controller combined with two M2 (NGFF) SSD slots. It offers the benefits of high performance of a small capacity M2 SSD and the low cost, high-capacity of a standard hard drive. The controller can be configured to operate in either hybrid mode or standard mode. In Hybrid mode, the controller enhances the performance of any ordinary SATA hard drive by the faster speed of a M2 SSD (Solid State Drive). This significantly improves the boot up time of your system as well as the overall read/write performance of the hard drive, great for storage IO intensive applications such as gaming, video editing, CAD/CAM or high performance workstations. For more detail on how the hybrid mode operates and the benefit, please click on the following link to read the white paper from Marvell, the ASIC engine supplier for this controller.

In standard mode, the connected two M2 SSDs and the two SATA hard drives can be set up to operate as four individual drives or combined to form a RAID 0, RAID 1 or combined into a RAID 10 group . The two SATA ports are Port Multiplier compatible and is SATA III compliant with maximum throughput up to 6Gbps. When installed into a 2-Lane PCI-e (version 2.0 or higher) slot, this adapter offers a maximum band width of 1000 MB/sec. It is a simple economical solution to create a high performance bootable SSD using low cost M2 SSD for any Desktop, server or computing equipment